On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Dan Wilder wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:02:11PM -0500, Jenn Sturm wrote: > > > > -- > > I've configured my Linux box to backup my Irix box using tar, as > > recommended on this list. It works great for everything but the root > > paritition. I've tried dumptype comp-root-tar and root-tar, and it > > continues to fail. I tried creating an exclude.gtar file, and that > > doesn't seem to be helping any. > > > > Here's the contents of the exclude.gtar file. Does the hostname of > > the Irix box need to be in there? > > > > > > ./dev/fd > > ./tmp > > ./var/spool > > Ignore the "socket ignored" messages. I can't imagine you'd > care to archive those. Also ignore the "no such file or directory" > stuff. That's saying some file was present when the backup > was scheduled, which vanished before it could be saved. You > probably don't care. > > Somebody else can probably offer better advice on exclude.gtar. > I got mine to where I wanted it a long time ago, and have > attempted to forget about that traumatic ordeal, since. > >
I think you need to wildcard the directories like so: ./tmp/* ./var/spool/* etc -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Quantified Systems, Inc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
